Not Caring Quotes

Don't waste your time being what someone wants you to become, in order to feed their list of rules, boundaries and insecurities. Find your tribe. They will allow you to be you, while you dance in the rain.

Shannon L. Alder

It never ceases to amaze me: the things people care about.

Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.

A broken soul doesn't invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy.

Shannon L. Alder

It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.

Shannon L. Alder

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.

Shannon L. Alder

Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.

Shannon L. Alder

When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.

Shannon L. Alder

Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they discuss you with their friends and family, compete with you, bad mouth you to others or react to anything you do or say is when they give themselves away. You can either be saddened or flattered that you effected someone so much. The perspective is yours to determine.

Shannon L. Alder

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

Shannon L. Alder

There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else.

Shannon L. Alder

So you were talking crap about me? Hm. I missed it. I was too busy being fabulous.

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.

Shannon L. Alder

Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.

Shannon L. Alder

Because of the value placed on individual materialistic success in our society, we are surrounded by people primarily interested in getting something from others. Their attitudes are characterised by selfishness and a lack of empathy for others.

The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.

It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn't self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about something other than what is expected.

Shannon L. Alder

Family and friends become oppressors the moment they teach you that loyalty is more important than what is done to people outside your social circle. What they are really saying is this: Save yourself because God is more interested in an intact family or social circle that looks righteous, rather than you being a person of integrity that has compassion for others. It is this absurdity that teaches the wrong version of God and creates the next generation of "me" centered individuals.

Shannon L. Alder

She says: ...love is really all that matters. He hears: ...really love to do it on the mattress.

Anthony Liccione

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

Shannon L. Alder

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.

Shannon L. Alder

True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian.

Shannon L. Alder

The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans.

The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough!

Shannon L. Alder